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From: Marco A. Barra Montevechi Filho <marco.filho at lnls.br>
Sent: 04 August 2022 11:39
To: Mooney, Tim M. <mooney at anl.gov>; tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Re: Implementing transform field

 

Thanks, Tim! Thats exactly what was missing, the record works as expected now.

Apparently i was looking at another documentation page which does not have the COPT field specification: https://epics.anl.gov/bcda/synApps/calc/R2-4/transformRecord.html

This page has it: https://epics.anl.gov/bcda/synApps/calc/transformRecord.html

Best regards,

Marco

Transform Record and related software - EPICS Versions earlier than 5.8 did not have the COPT field. Release notes Versions earlier than 5.7 did not post fields with the DBE_LOG attribute. Versions earlier than 5.6 expected sCalcPostfix to allocate the postfix-_expression_ array. sCalcPostfix no longer does this, and the transform record changed as a consequence. epics.anl.gov

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From: Mooney, Tim M. <mooney at anl.gov>
Sent: 04 August 2022 11:29
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>; Marco A. Barra Montevechi Filho <marco.filho at lnls.br>
Subject: Re: Implementing transform field

 

Hi Marco,

I think you need to look at the transform record's COPT field.  To serve the original purpose of the record, CLCA is not performed if A has changed since the last time the record was processed.  The non-default behavior you want requires that you set COPT to "Always"

Tim Mooney (mooney at anl.gov) (630)252-5417
Beamline Controls Group (www.aps.anl.gov)
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Lab

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From: Tech-talk <tech-talk-bounces at aps.anl.gov> on behalf of Marco A. Barra Montevechi Filho via Tech-talk <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Sent: Thursday, August 4, 2022 9:19 AM
To: tech-talk at aps.anl.gov <tech-talk at aps.anl.gov>
Subject: Implementing transform field

 

Good morning, all!
Im trying to implement the transform field in an IOC but im not getting the expected result:

i have an analog in record reading a bitmask value from a modbus register. Since the bitmask has 16 bits, i want to perform 16 bitwise operations to transform each bit in a binary in record thus transforming each 0 or 1 into a different string.

Since i dont want to need to create 16 calcout records, i thought i could use the transform record to perform all bitwise operations and push each one of them into a different binary in record. So after reading the documentation i tried to perform a calculation with transform just for testing:

record(ai, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:BitmaskGetter") {

    field(DESC, "Bitmask used by other pvs.")

    field(DTYP,"asynInt32")

    field(INP,"@asyn(SIP_EMODBUS_1_1_Rd_Status,0,1000)MODBUS_DATA")

    field(SCAN, "I/O Intr")

    field(FLNK, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:StatusSeparator")

}

record(transform, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:StatusSeparator"){

    field(DESC, "PV to process status bitmask")

    field(INPA, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:StatusBitmask")

    field(CLCA, "A+1")

    field(OUTA, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:EnableStatus")

    field(SCAN, "Passive")

}

record(bi, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:EnableStatus"){

    field(DESC, "Power supply status")

    field(ZNAM, "Stopped")

    field(ONAM, "Started")

}

So i expected that while caget in BitmaskGetter returns 0, caget into StatusSeparator.A would return 1 and EnableStatus would return "Started". It is not what happens: StatusSeparator returns 0 and EnableStatus returns "Stopped".

To test if the calculation is right, i tried substituting the transform record to a calc one:

record(ai, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:BitmaskGetter") {

    field(DESC, "Bitmask used by other pvs.")

    field(DTYP,"asynInt32")

    field(INP,"@asyn(SIP_EMODBUS_1_1_Rd_Status,0,1000)MODBUS_DATA")

    field(SCAN, "I/O Intr")

    field(FLNK, "test_calc")

}

record(calcout, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:StatusSeparator""){

    field(DESC, "PV to process status bitmask")

    field(INPA, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:StatusBitmask")

    field(CALC, "A+1")

    field(OUT, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:EnableStatus")

}

record(bi, "${BL}:${H}:${EQ}:EnableStatus"){

    field(DESC, "Power supply status")

    field(ZNAM, "Stopped")

    field(ONAM, "Started")

}

And now caget into StatusSeparator returns 1, StatusSeparator.A returns 0, BitmaskGetter returns 0 and EnableStatus returns "Started", as expected.

So i figure field OUTA from the transform record pushes the value in field A (which is zero) to the EnableStatus link. If this is the case, is there any way at all to push the result from CLCA to the EnableStatus link? Also,in which field is the result from CLCA field stored, if any?

Thanks in advance,

Marco

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